Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait?

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 20:03:39 EST


On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:30:53PM +0100, Pascal Schmidt wrote:

> No idea about NFS, but sync(1) does wait. When I push 500M out to my
> MO drive, the cp operation returns fairly quickly because I usually
> have more than 500M free memory. Then I run sync(1), which takes
> about 20 minutes before it returns.

20 minutes?!


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